Amanda Brotchie

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Amanda Brotchie
Born Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation(s)director, writer and linguist
Known forPicnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2012).

Amanda Brotchie, born in Melbourne, Victoria), is an Australian director known for Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Mr Black (2019), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2010-2012). She is also a writer, producer and linguist.

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Career

Brotchie co-created the multi-award-winning series Lowdown (ABC, BBC 4), through the company High Wire Films, which she founded with producer, Nicole Minchin, and her husband, writer, producer and actor, Adam Zwar. [1] [2] [3]

Other TV shows Brotchie has directed include Picnic at Hanging Rock (Showcase, Amazon), Girlboss (Netflix), A Place to Call Home (Showcase, Acorn TV), The Letdown Series 2 (ABC, [4] Netflix), Squinters (ABC), and Mr Black (Network 10), created by Adam Zwar, which she wrote on and set up. [5]

Theatre credits include The Inner Sanctum, which she directed, and Headlock, which she wrote and directed, and which was nominated for a Green Room Award for Writing. [6]

Brotchie directed the multi-award-winning short film Break & Enter (1999). Her awards include an AFI award for Best Short Film, and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Short Film. Break & Enter screened at numerous international festivals and, rare for a short film, had a cinema release in Australia through Palace Cinemas, supporting Happy, Texas .

Brotchie has a PhD in linguistics, from the University of Melbourne. [7] In researching her PhD, she lived in a remote village on an island in Vanuatu, filming and documenting the local language and culture. [8]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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